Whether you’re attending your first Beale Street Music Festival or your 40th, The Daily Memphian’s BSMF survival guide will provide you with the information you need to navigate this year’s festival at Liberty Park.

How are you feeling on this fine third day of Music Fest? Tired? Us, too. Two days at Beale Street Music Festival can take a lot out of you, so pour yourself a second cup of coffee (or try a little hair of the dog; see below), and hang in there for one more day. 

Isabella Benge teases her friend, Hannah Abu-Khaybeh, who took a nap while waiting on a rain-delayed Megan Thee Stallion at Beale Street Music Fest at Liberty Park on Apr. 30, 2022. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

TODAY’S TIPS

Old Dominick is offering buy one, get one free tours with a special Memphis in May discount code. (Daily Memphian file)

Whiskey makes us frisky: Before you head down to the festival today, grab a friend and get your pre-game on with a tour of Old Dominick Distillery. You can use the code MEMINMAY at checkout for a buy one, get one free tour of the city’s only distillery.

Julian DeBrower and Emily Tetrault take a selfie at Beale Street Music Fest at Liberty Park on Apr. 30, 2022. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

Let me take a selfie: Capture your festival memories forever at designated selfie stations throughout Liberty Park. There are four selfie stations scattered around the park. Look for the Dr. Pepper-sponsored station for a chance to win a Gibson Guitar (you’ll scan a QR code at the station to enter the contest). Plus, there’s a Memphis Travel selfie wall, a chalk wall and some giant BSMF letters for you and your friends to pose around. Take your selfies to the next level with specially designed camera filters available in the free Beale Street Music Festival app. 

Line-up changes: Lindsey Buckingham’s performance has been canceled due to COVID, and 1990s alt-rock band Third Eye Blind will take his place at 6:30 p.m. on the ZYN Stage.

ICYMI

Megan Thee Stallion sings at Beale Street Music Fest at Liberty Park on Apr. 30, 2022. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

Beale Street Music Festival went smoothly, with overcast skies and wind, until around 10 p.m. when severe weather moved into the area and forced festival goers to seek shelter. Headlining acts Megan Thee Stallion and The Smashing Pumpkins were postponed until around 1 a.m. The Daily Memphian’s Alicia Davidson was there, and she offers a look into the blues tent and some of the day’s highlights.

HEADLINER YOU HAVE TO SEE

The Counting Crows will headline on Sunday at 8:15 p.m. on the ZYN Stage. In this file photo, Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows performs on ABC's "Good Morning America" in June 2012. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Counting Crows, 8:15 p.m.: When I was in high school in the 1990s, The Counting Crows played on repeat in my bedroom as I got ready for class every morning. I’m sure even my parents know every word to “Mr. Jones” after all that.

The Counting Crows formed in 1991 and rose to prominence with 1993’s “August and Everything After” — the album with the aforementioned “Mr. Jones,” “Round Here” and “Rain King.” It was the grunge era, but The Counting Crows proudly performed their folksy college rock without bowing to the trends of the time. And it worked — “August and Everything After” reached seven-times-platinum status in the U.S.

While the band hasn’t reached that same level of success with, well, everything after, they are still making new music. Their most recent album, “Miracle Butter,” came out in 2021. Music isn’t all frontman Adam Duritz is making though; his Instagram account — @countingcrows — doubles as a cooking account. Scroll through for pics of Duritz’s dinner and hilarious cooking reels. — Bianca Phillips

TODAY’S WEATHER

The rain clouds have parted, and we’re in for a beautiful sunny Sunday at Beale Street Music Festival. Temps will be in the high 70s during the day and cooling a bit to the high 60s by the time the headliners take the stage, so you might want to pack a light jacket. If the fest were at Tom Lee Park this year, we’d say you might want to wear rain boots today due to last night’s rain. But with all the concrete at Liberty Park, expect your kicks to stay dry.

NOTABLE LOCALS

Memphis rapper Jucee Fruit performs at 2:10 p.m. on Sunday on the Bud Light Stage. (Courtesy of Memphis in May)

Jucee Froot, 2:10 p.m.: If there’s a sub-genre of rap you prefer, chances are there’s currently a female rapper performing in it, and at a high level. One of those rappers is Jucee Foot, who is from Memphis, but has a profile that is national, with songs appearing on major TV shows and movies. Her music has appeared on HBO’s “Insecure” soundtrack, as well as DC Comics’ “Birds of Prey” superhero film soundtrack.

Jucee Froot’s most notable TV or film spot is her original theme song for Starz’ Mississippi-set stripper saga, “P-Valley,” with its nursery rhyme-like cadence. If you see social media talk about the show, there’s a sizable portion of it with people quoting the “Down in the Valley” song lyrics.

Jucee Froot is adding a modern twist to legacy Memphis rap influence. For an example of what Jucee Froot can do, check out her “Psycho” remix with rapper Rico Nasty, combining sex appeal, braggadocio and rambunctious energy. — Elle Perry

Memphis rapper Moneybagg Yo performs at 7:40 p.m. on the Bud Light Stage. In this 2019 file photo, he’s shown performing at Memphis Madness at the FedExForum. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)

Moneybagg Yo, 7:40 p.m.: In 2016, I sat outside my college apartment and heard loud music blasting from a car roaming through the parking lot. Scrolling on my Instagram timeline, I saw a video of a person singing words to the same song that came from the car’s radio speakers. It was a track by none other than the “Big Speaker” himself.

But, the song, “Back From Cali,” released on the first installment of Moneybagg Yo’s “Federal” mixtape series, wasn’t the song that caused his rise to fame. The Walker Homes native began his rap career in 2012. He came up collaborating and associating himself with other inner-city talents like Grammy award-winning producer Tay Keith, rapper OG Boo Dirty, Finesse2Tymes and another South Memphis born hustler, Young Dolph. 

After listening to later projects like “Time Served,” released in 2020, you can conclude from Moneybagg’s music that he didn’t allow crime-influenced street culture to get in the way of his career path. Instead, he put his personal experiences over chart-topping beats to make up the many songs that have helped him earn over 11 million monthly listeners on Spotify.

As a member of Yo Gotti’s music label, CMG, in 2021, Moneybagg earned his first number-one album for his fourth studio project, “A Gangsta’s Pain.” As someone who has personally witnessed the growth of his commercial success, I’d say watching his performance at this years Beale Street Music Festival will be a full circle moment for him and for the city. — Jasmin McCraven

AND DON’T MISS THIS

Organist Cory Henry plays on Sunday at 2 p.m. on the Terminix Stage. In this file photo, Henry performs at the Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival in March 2018 in Okeechobee, Florida. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Cory Henry, 2 p.m.: If you’re looking for a soul selection at this year’s festival, Cory Henry is a must-see. The Grammy-winning jazz singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (including keyboard and organ), was once a part of soul/jazz/funk/rock collective Snarky Puppy. Henry is not just any organ player — he actually began playing the organ as a toddler and made his debut at the Apollo Theater at age six. And, as a teen he played with Bruce Springsteen, The Roots and Kirk Franklin.

In recent years, Henry has collaborated with Kanye West, Imagine Dragons and Jazmine Sullivan. For a sample of Henry’s style live, check out Henry and his “Funk Apostles” on one of my favorite ways to enjoy music, NPR’s Tiny Desk. — Elle Perry

Modest Mouse plays at 6:55 p.m. on Sunday on the Terminix stage. In this photo, Modest Mouse performs at the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. (Photo by Alexandra Wyman/Invision/AP)

Modest Mouse, 6:55 p.m.: The Pacific Northwest is fertile ground for indie and alternative rock, and no area band since the grunge days made the leap into the mainstream as successfully as Modest Mouse, a Washington-born, Oregon-based band led by singer Isaac Brock. The band’s first two albums, way back in the late 1990s, were titled “This is a Long Drive For Someone with Nothing to Think About” and “The Lonesome Crowded West,” and that’s kind of what their music feels like: Searching but elusive, odd in a fetching way.

The band scored an unlikely but totally deserving actual hit single with 2004’s “Float On,” a true alt-rock anthem that doesn’t sound apart from their catalog but instead is a kind of honest emblem of it. “We’ll all float on ok” is the kind of promise this music was meant to make. After a six-year recording hiatus, the band returned with last year’s “The Golden Casket,” and sound is undiminished. — Herrington

TODAY’S FULL LINE-UP

2 p.m. Cory Branan (ZYN Stage)
2 p.m. Cory Henry (Terminix Stage)
2 p.m. Melva “Chick” Rogers (Coca Cola Blues Tent)
2:10 p.m. Jucee Froot (Bud Light Stage)
3:20 p.m. Patty Griffin (ZYN Stage)
3:20 p.m. Third World (Bud Light Stage)
3:25 p.m. Blind Mississippi Morris (Coca Cola Blues Tent)
3:30 p.m. Indigo Girls (Terminix Stage)
4:45 p.m. Stonebwoy (Bud Light Stage)
4:50 p.m. The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band (Coca Cola Blues Tent)
4:55 p.m. Grace Potter (ZYN Stage)
5:05 p.m. Goose (Terminix Stage)
6:10 p.m. Shaggy (Bud Light Stage)
6:20 p.m. Sue Foley (Coca Cola Blues Tent)
6:30 p.m. Third Eye Blind (ZYN Stage)
6:55 p.m. Modest Mouse (Terminix Stage)
7:40 p.m. Moneybagg Yo (Bud Light Stage)
7:50 p.m. Trigger Hippy (Coca Cola Blues Tent)
8:15 p.m. Counting Crows (ZYN Stage)
8:40 p.m. Weezer (Terminix Stage)
9 p.m. Lil Wayne (Bud Light Stage)
9:25 p.m. Elvin Bishop & Big Fun Trio (Coca Cola Blues Tent)

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